I heard the story, maybe too good not to be true, about the shopkeeper in Scotland who, when an American tourist asked after a necktie in a "clan tartan" that didn't exist, grabbed a badly faded tie that had been sitting in the display window for years and handed it to the tourist saying "oh we just happen to have a tie in that tartan here in the window!"
I have not heard that story before! I can imagine it being done, though!
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
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